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8181954 Mail feeding device  
A feeding device for feeding each of accumulated mail items P onto a conveyance path includes a pickup belt which runs along a pickup position, and a negative-pressure chamber opposing the pickup...
8157256 Sheet handling apparatus and sheet handling method  
A sheet handling apparatus is provided that includes a take-out member to take out a sheet from a take-out position by rotating the sheet in a state in which negative pressure is applied to the...
8152160 Tier sheet dispensing apparatus for a conveyor system  
A tier sheet dispensing apparatus for a conveyor system stores a stack of tier sheets and sequentially dispenses the tier sheets, one at a time, onto the top of a two-dimensionally arrayed layer of...
8100397 Feeder with adjustable time cycle and method  
A timed feeder for feeding corrugated boards to nip rolls of a box finishing machine. An indexing drive mechanism, driven by a computer-controlled servo motor, activates a feed member and has a...
7976013 Cyclically controlled paper feeder with optical stack level control  
In paper feeder apparatus, the combination comprising first means including a support for a paper stack and transfer elements for successively transferring paper sheets from the top of the stack...
7958988 Conveying device and image forming apparatus  
A conveying device includes a guiding member that has a contact portion that comes into contact with an inner peripheral surface of a conveying belt in which a plurality of suction holes is formed,...
7954805 Mail feeding device  
A feeding device for feeding each of accumulated mail items P onto a conveyance path includes a pickup belt which runs along a pickup position, and a negative-pressure chamber opposing the pickup...
7950654 Film handling system with elongated film guide  
A film handling system is described, including: a supply container for supporting a plurality of sheets of film; a film receiver; and a transport mechanism for retrieving a sheet of film from the...
7926665 Method and apparatus for transferring sheet products from a product stack to a conveyor belt  
The method according to the invention of transferring stacked, sheet-like, flexible products (10), in particular printed products (12), to a belt conveyor (20) has a gripper (26) by means of which...
7891654 Sheet feeder and image forming apparatus with side surface air mechanism  
A sheet feeding unit includes a side warm-air mechanism that blows air toward a side surface of a sheet stack S from a warm-air outlet. The sheet feeding unit controls the lift mechanism so as to...
7845629 Sheet take-out apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and sheet take-out method  
To provide a sheet take-out apparatus for preventing double feed of sheets and controlling gaps to a desired value, a sheet processing apparatus, and a sheet take-out method. A take-out apparatus...
7841595 Method and device for feeding printed products using alternating acceleration and deceleration phases  
A first embodiment of the present invention provides a method for transferring printed products and comprises the steps of pulling a printed product from a stack using a feed device running at a...
7837187 Device for separating individual flat objects from a stack and for transporting away the separated objects  
For separating individual flat and bendable objects (2) from the underside of a stack of such objects (2), and for the onward transportation of the objects, the invention provides a stacking space...
7809464 Registration system for sheet fed processing machines  
The invention relates to a registration system for sheet fed processing machines that reduces or eliminates the need to calibrate the register and/or timing dials of such a machine. The system uses...
7770882 Apparatus and method for processing sheets  
A method and apparatus are provided for processing sets of sheets. The apparatus includes a frame, a hopper for moving a stack of sheets, a pre-singulator for separating a portion of a sheet from...
7766318 Pickoff mechanism for mail feeder  
A pickoff system for removal of mail pieces one at a time from the end of a stack includes a pickoff belt mechanism positioned to frictionally engage an outer surface of a mail piece at the end of...
7677550 Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming system  
A sheet feeding apparatus includes: a sheet tray in which a plurality of sheets is to be stacked; a sheet feeding section which vacuums a sheet from the plurality of sheets stacked in the sheet...
7665722 Method and apparatus for guiding sheets to a sheet processing machine, in particular a printing press  
In a method and an apparatus for guiding sheets to a sheet processing machines, provision is made to reduce the adhesion forces between sheets following one another by the trailing edge of the...
7661672 Film handling system  
A film handling system is described, including: a supply container for supporting a plurality of sheets of film; a film receiver; and a transport mechanism for retrieving a sheet of film from the...
7657199 Image forming apparatus with air blowing unit and associated transfer bias changing means  
An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member which bears a toner image; a transfer unit which transfers the toner image on the image bearing member to a transfer portion when...
7635124 Feeder with adjustable time cycle and method  
A timed feeder for feeding corrugated boards to nip rolls of a box finishing machine. A feed member is raised to the feed path to engage and drive a board to the nip rolls and then lowered away...
7614619 Methods and apparatus for separating image recordable materials from a media stack  
The present invention provides methods and apparatus for separating an image recordable material from a stack of slip-sheets and printing plates. A slip-sheet separates each of the image recordable...
7478810 Rotary feeder with cam actuated claw members  
In a rotary feeder for conveying enclosures, in particular into conveying compartments of an enclosure-collating path, during operation, shocks within the gear mechanism of the drive unit of the...
7475875 Apparatus and method for separating printing plates  
An apparatus for separating printing plates which are separated from one another in a stack, preferably individually by intermediate layers, has a lifting device for raising a printing plate or an...
7472902 System and method for improving top sheet acquisition in a printing machine  
An apparatus that is useful for acquiring and conveying a sheet includes a plenum having an opening for coupling a vacuum source to the plenum, a slide plate having a stop member positioned...
7461838 Spaced apart segment wheel assembly for a carton packaging machine  
An improved segment wheel assembly for an article packaging machine is provided for picking individual carton blanks from a magazine and delivering the carton blanks to a conveyor to be carried to...
7431281 Method of separating a sheet of print media from a stack of sheets  
A method of separating a sheet of print media from a stack (28) of sheets, the sheets being porous, includes blowing fluid on to a top surface of a topmost sheet (28.1) of the print media on the...
7419153 Method and apparatus for producing bound books, magazines or brochures  
A method for producing bound books, magazines or brochures by gathering printed sheets into non-bound book blocks along a conveying section that is supplied by at least one sheet feeder includes...
7377507 Automatic flat-article dispensing apparatus  
An automatic flat-article dispensing apparatus which can dispense a relatively large and heavy flat articles without damaging the articles and without increasing the size of the apparatus and...
7328895 Sheet feeder vacuum feed head with variable corrugation  
A sheet separating and feeding system for separating a top sheet from a stack of sheets for sheet feeding, wherein a vacuum feed head has a two dimensional array of multiple vacuum tubes for vacuum...
7320463 Device for feeding a processing section  
A device for feeding a processing section with printed products includes a magazine and a feeding mechanism that includes a gripping mechanism and a conveying mechanism for removing the printed...
7258336 Integrated vacuum slide feeder  
A sheet feeder assembly for acquiring and conveying a sheet comprises a plenum connectable to a vacuum source and having an opening facing the sheet to be conveyed, and a slide plate covering the...
7237771 Feeder control system and method  
A document forming apparatus, comprising a substrate feeder for storing and dispensing substrates to a printing engine, a controller for controlling the operation of the document forming apparatus,...
7198264 Sheet supplying device  
In a sheet supplying device for feeding a sheet from a sheet stack configured by stacking plural sets of sheets collated by page order, each of which corresponds to one volume, for each set of...
7172116 Automatic dispensing machine of cards and card like goods  
Dispensing more than one card or card like good is prevented to prevent issuing a duplicate with an automatic dispensing machine of card or card like good having a table which supports the piled up...
7168698 Sheet sucking/removing method and sheet sucking/removing device  
In a sheet sucking/removing device, suction cups are controlled to a state of a first negative pressure which is a minimum pressure needed to suck and remove only one uppermost printing plate, and...
7144009 Apparatus for transmitting a workpiece  
The apparatus for transmitting a workpiece along a press line includes a support frame; a support frame driving unit; a plurality of air pipes; an air flow forming unit; a plurality of rollers; and...
7100506 Plate supplying apparatus  
In the plate supplying apparatus of the present invention, various vibrations are provided to a plate secured via suction during a separating operation by causing pad rods 403 to repeat a slight...
7051653 Image recording material separating/removing device  
An image recording material separating/removing device which, by using a single lift-out mechanism section, can lift image recording materials out from plural cassettes along simple loci of...
7007942 Panel handling apparatus  
An apparatus and method for lifting, separating and transporting a top panel from a stack of panels through the application sequential suction forces. The apparatus and method uses a vacuum...
6981698 Automatic dispensing machine of substantially flat goods  
An automatic dispensing machine of substantially flat goods is provided which detects the over-dispensing of goods while accommodating for varying thickness of the substantially flat goods. The...
6948430 Printing plate conveyor system  
A conveyor system for transporting a printing plate in a platemaking system includes: a carriage riding on a track and one or more low friction substantially horizontal planar support surfaces...
6935238 Image recording material conveying device and automatic image recording system  
A conveying device for a printing plate precursor which takes the printing plate precursor and an interleaf sheet out from a cassette, and which, along a conveying path to an exposure section,...
6904844 Printing plate removing/supplying device  
In a removing/conveying portion of a printing plate removing/supplying device, when one cassette among a plurality of cassettes is empty, the empty cassette is placed on a raising/lowering stand...
6843474 Method and device for application of thin objects  
The present invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for separation and application of thin objects of a non-porous material or of a material of low porosity on a surface. The invention...
6823791 Plate inverter for plate management system and method of operation  
A substrate manager for a substrate exposure machine is used, in one example, as a platesetter. As such, it comprises a substrate storage system, containing one or more stacks of substrates, such...
6769678 Sheet separating device  
A device for separating a lowermost flat product from a stack of flat products including at least one sucker cup moveable so as to removably attach along a front edge portion of the lowermost flat...
6739261 Device for selecting and conveying printing plates  
A device for selecting and conveying printing plates is provided which can overcome complexity of work involved in so-called batch processing, and can realize operation of, for example, removing a...
6729237 Device for removing image recording material  
A device for removing an image recording material is provided, which takes up little space and is used with printing plates and interleaf sheets set alternately in a cassette. An interleaf sheet...
6718875 Apparatus for extracting and conveying printing plates  
An apparatus for extracting and conveying a printing plate. The apparatus includes separation plates disposed at corners of a cassette accommodating at least printing plates. Air enters between an...
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